Костенко Василий Юрьевич

Education and Degrees

2017

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)

2011

Degree
Orel State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2025. Programme for the Development of Executive Personnel Talent Pool in Science, Technology and Higher Education (Strategic Level). October 2024-February 2025, Sirius Federal Territory, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Senezh Management Workshop. Sirius University, RANEPA.

2024. Career Lift Development Programme. Professional Competences of an Executive Manager. May-December, HSE University, Moscow.

2024. Digital Tools and Edutainment in Education.
March-April 2024, HSE University, Moscow.

2023. 6th School of young scientists "Basics of healthy nutrition and ways of prevention of alimentary-dependent diseases. Stress, nutrition, adaptation".
October 2023, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety, Moscow.

2022. Anti-crisis digital communications in the admission campaign.
June 2022, HSE University, St. Petersburg.

2020. Entrepreneurial thinking and support of students' entrepreneurial projects.
May-June 2020, HSE University, Moscow.

2018. Wachstum ermöglichen. Veränderungsprozesse begleiten in Psychotherapie und Beratung.
26–30 April 2018, GLE-International, Dresden, Germany

2017. Data Analysis in Social Sciences.
23 July–6 August 2017, Summer School, Moscow district

2014. Autumn School on Data Analysis.
20–28 October 2014, Voronovo Trainig Centre, Moscow

2014. Stanford Online. Writing in the Sciences.
September–November 2014, Online Course

2012. GESIS Summer School on Survey Methodology: Web Surveys
11–25 August 2012, Cologne, Germany

Professional Interests

personality psychology psychometrics personality development

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2024, 2021, 2019
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2017–2018)
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Satisfaction with Degree Programme Quality’ — 2023–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Retention and Loyalty’ — 2023–2024

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
M. M. Grishutina Possible Self as the resource of self-regulation, 2024
2
Self-distancing as a component of personality capacity to self-reflection
3
Characteristics of the educational environment associated with academic burnout of students
4
E. Voevodina Dimensions of Meaning and Eudaimonia at Different Levels of Ego Development
5
Indicators of personality traits in visual language: a psycho-lexical study of emoji taxonomy on the Russian sample
6
E. Nazina Meta-synthesis of models of personal changes in the context of life events
7
Self-regulation capacities at different stages of ego development

Courses (2024/2025)

Personality Development (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 3 year, 2 semester)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 2 year, 2 semester)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Eng
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Research Seminar: Academic Approaches to Personality Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
Theories of Personality (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Theories of Personality (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Grants

2023-2026. The Potential of Agency: An Approach through the Possible Self and the Quality of Choice (Russian Science Foundation, principal investigator).

2020-2022. Measurement of Personality Development with Sentence Completion Test: Conceptual Issues and the Status of the Rater (Russian Science Foundation, principal investigator).

2020-2021. Variety of Possible Selves: The Role of Agency and Empirical Evidence Review (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, principal investigator).

2019-2021. Development of Personality in Students with Disability in Conditions of Inclusive Distance Learning (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

2017-2019. Personality Development Through the Transition from Childhood to Adulthood: Psychological Mechanisms, Indicators, and Trajectories (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

2016-2017. Investigation of the Psychological Characteristics of Parenthood of a Child with Developmental Disabilities in Biological and Foster Families (Russian Foundation for Humanities).

2014-2016. The Role of Inner Dialogue and Self-reflection in Personality Self-regulation, Self-attitude, and Self-development (Russian Foundation for Humanities).

Conferences

2024
2nd Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP) (Милан). Presentation: The Impossible Self and Its Experience in the Context of Personality Change

2018
International Symposium "Happiness beyond well-being" (Москва). Presentation: Through the lens of personality development: Where mindfulness and self-reflection come into balance?
Международная научно-практическая конференция «Личность в эпоху перемен: mobilis in mobili» (Москва). Presentation: Ресурсы саморегуляции в их связи с развитием личности

2017
17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (Tokio, Japan). Presentation: Further evidence for Vygotsky's laws of personality development
9th SELF Biennial International Conference (Melbourne, Australia). Presentation: Impossible selves: empirical specification of H. Markus' Possible selves theory

2016
9th International Conference on Dialogical Self (Lublin, Poland). Presentation: The contribution of self-reflection and inner dialogue to ego development
II Международный семинар "Психология диалога и мир человека" (Уфа). Presentation: Внутренняя диалоговая активность и рефлексивные процессы на различных уровнях развития личности

2015
III Всероссийская конференция по психологической диагностике (Челябинск). Presentation: Проблема психометрической проверки методик с выбором номинативного варианта ответа

2013
1st World Conference on Personality (Stellenbosch, South Africa). Presentation: Using the Internet in longitudinal personality research: advantages and restrictions

2012
6th European Conference on Positive Psychology (Москва). Presentation: Член организационного комитета

Employment history

From 2020 to the present day: Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Academic Supervisor of the Master's programme ‘Positive Psychology’. Head of academic ( Russian Science Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research) and applied science-engaged projects, developer of continuing professional education programmes.

From 2012 to 2023: work as a research fellow at the Positive psychology laboratory under the supervision of Dmitry Leontiev (initially in the Research and Educational Group of Positive Psychology and Quality of Life, then in the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation).

Responsibilities

Academic supervision of the master's program "Positive Psychology". Management of applied projects. Conducting academic research on personality development.

17

Jul

2023

Russian Science Foundation Supports 15 Projects by HSE’s Early-Career Researchers

The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of the youth contests of the Presidential Programme. HSE University’s early-career researchers are receiving grants for research projects in economics, psychology, sociology, political science, law, mathematics, information science, optics, engineering, and ocean studies.

3

Jul

2018

When There Is No One Around

How solitude differs from loneliness

Vasily Kostenko